prayerish

comparative more prayerish · superlative most prayerish

1. Characteristic of or inclined toward prayer; prayerlike or prayerful.

   She had a prayerish voice.

   1935, The Tanager - Volumes 11-12, page 9

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   Others, I swear, crossed themselves at least mentally, and whispered a prayerish aside into their seidels.

   1941 -, Norman Alley, I Witness, page 175

   The only number I liked was that prayerish affair.

   1960, Drum - Issues 105-117, page 63

   Or because the people who went there were in a prayerish mood and were more likely to take care of me?

   2018, Emma Shevah, Dara Palmer's Major Drama